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Induction coils to track vehicles?
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That is in a vacuum, but with ALPRs at strategic points, it's possible to connect the license plate to a series of readings along the way, and would similarly allow correlation to prior trips (be it with a slightly different characteristic that day). As there's many readings along the way, it should also be possible to filter out large inconsistencies; or with some clever machine learning algorithms, be possible to correlate such inconsistencies with reasonable certainty. Unless multiple cars, that consistently drive head-to-tail the entire trip, create a reading similar to a truck (also with regards to speed), I think it's quite easy to discern the two categories. On the highway itself each lane has its own coil, so even if a truck had space to drive over the edge of another coil, the primary coil would also be significantly affected. Even the simplest of metal detectors can modulate output based on induction (the beep changing in pitch), so why would recent (~2019) specialty equipment only be able to output a boolean value?